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Hello Friends, How are you? I am missing “seeing” you all everyday 🙁 that’s the part I miss most when the 30 day coloring challenge is over.

I am back today to celebrate Simon Says Stamp with their new and exciting “Spring Plush” release blog hop! This release also has a stamp set that was a collaboration with Neat & Tangled PLUS lots of Plush dies, beautiful felt and everything to make your own plush delights like thread, needles and felt glue!

I have a video today to show you how I created these vellumcarrots stuffed with jelly beans. They will be a sweet treat to rip open and for the candies to spill out for someone special. A mini piñata perhaps.

Sewing is something I have always really enjoyed doing so I was super excited for Simon Says Stamp’s new collection. Creating the carrots I used this heavy weight vellum. Fun foam was used on the tops of the carrots with vellum on top of the fun foam to give it more structure.

You can sew on paper, vellum, fabric and or felt. Adding color with floss gives my carrots a nice variety of color.

Honestly I had so much fun I wanted to make some sugar rush flowers. Break open if you are need of a sweet treat. These flowers would be great on a pillow, baby shirt, guest towel, tote bag or to make a sachet. I can go on and on lol. I was lucky to pick up this pastel vellum at Simon a while ago.

Fill a glass jar with some jelly beans and you have a fun centerpiece for Easter or a special occasion.

I promise once you start you can’t stop. A pocket was made on the large egg to hold the sweet lil bunny. I used the Easter basket strap on the egg to hold the carrot. I stuffed the bunny with batting, the carrot with bubble wrap and the large egg with cotton. When my dog rips apart his stuffed toys I will be saving the stuffing next time!

GIVEAWAY: A Simon Goody bag on every stop of the hop. The more you comment on each blog the more chances you have of winning. There will be a winner on each stop of the hop for a prize package. The winners will announced on the Simon blog onMonday, March 7.

You should be arriving here from the talented Amy Rysavy . The next stop on the hop is the super sweet & talented Taheerah Atchia . Click HERE if you want to stop at the beginning of the hop.

Thank You for your visit and wishing you a wonderful weekend. Hugs, Kathy

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I’ve never before heard your hint about the length of the floss! I also appreciate your idea to reinforce the top of the carrot. I ordered the carrot yesterday. I thought it would be a great first stitching project for my granddaughter.

Oh the great ideas that you have!!! I’d love to put my hands on some of those dies, I’ve been sewing felt names for ages now but no dies exist for that purpose, maybe I should give the idea to somebody!…

These projects are adorable. The centerpiece is so cute I think I will have to give it a try. All of these projects have given me more of an appreciation for vellum. I have had it in my collection for so long and never used it I think I will have to pull it out and use it. Thanks for sharing.

I’m so in love with the felt, the stitching, and all the sweet little touches. This new Spring Plush line is absolutely adorable. Thanks so much for giving us all this great inspiration. What a fun blog hop.
Blessings,
Karen Letchworthhttp://www.karen-mycuprunnethover.blogspot.com

OH YES! I DO LOVE your basket Kathy! PERFECT for Easter! Your carrots are ADORABLE!!! I’m not a lover of Jelly Beans either….so, if you don’t want your kids having too many at once, these little carrots help to control the servings! LOL 😉 AND WHAT A FUN WAY to do it!!!! 😉 (Your other projects look FABULOUS TOO!) 😉

SQUEAL! LOVING LOVING LOVING the New Release!! OMG OMG OMG!! How FUN are ALL of your Creations!! =) I’ve been making SEVERAL Bunnies and Baskets!! I CAN’T WAIT to share!! These are ALL going to be SO FUN to CREATE with!! =) THANKS SO MUCH for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEKEND!! HUGS!! =)

Oh i wonder if the Carrot filled with bubble wrap would make a good crinkly cat toy? Cats need Easter presents too. Love your candy filled carrots and flowers. In emergency, break flower. You have such a super mind Kathy!

OH my goodness, this is just the sweetest inspiration!!! What a creative and festive centerpiece you’ve designed!!! I just love how the little vellum shapes are not only completely darling but also filled with a yummy sweet treat!!! How clever and such fun!!! Thanks for sharing your wonderful inspiration for this hop!! I’ve enjoyed it so much!!!

Kathy, Thanks for the great video. I love the carrots filled with jelly beans, they’re just the right size for the kiddo’s. The basket is beautiful, I have a whole collection of white milk glass that I fill with Easter goodies as the table centerpiece. Thanks for sharing and inspiring.

Wow, what fun things you’ve made!!! They are all SO darling and so spring-like, but I’ve got to say the bunny is my favorite! So, so cute!!! SSS has really helped you decorate for the season in a very creative way! 🙂

I think it is so amazing that after going through around 11 or 12 of these each of you have come up with a way of doing this differently. That’s why artists are so different same paint different pictures – you gals are great !!!

What fun projects! The vellum treat holders are such a great idea! I love how you combined different parts of various dies to create the adorable holder for the darling bunny and carrot! Thanks for the inspiration!

I love what you did with the vellum and how you made the carrots. They are so adorable! I’d hate to open them up and ruin them though. How long do you think Jelly Beans last anyway? LOL Love the bunny in the pocket! Everything is so adorable! It’s hard to believe that Easter is almost here when it seems like we just got done with Christmas! Where does the time go, is what I would like to know!
Thanks for showing us what you did and how you did it. There is just cuteness overload at your house! I’ll be hop, hop, hopping tomorrow night as it’s way past my bedtime right now. See you tomorrow!

CUTENESS GALORE 🙂
LOVE your FUN & FABULOUS vellum & felt treats … I can see this being the start of a new CRAFTY ADDICTION, making a stitch-in-time while relaxing in front of the tv!!!
THANK YOU for sharing!!!

Soooo cute especially as little gifts for each of your guest to take home at Easter or for the older kids in the family u could put a gift card in there or money and they could pull a carrot and see what they get.

So many wonderful ideas for these projects!! Like using foam behind the vellum to keep it stiff! Making it out of vellum was great too, because they can see the gorgeous colors inside!! The felt bunny is adorbs, too!!!! Great tutorial and so many terrific projects!!

I really love vellum. You are so talented and I am starting to really enjoy discovering techniques, tips, info, ideas here with you. I’m still quite new to all this and it’s my first blog hop lol. Thank you! All your projects are awesome 🙂

Your talents never cease! I do sew or should I say I know how to sew — I have not sewn lately! Ha! I don’t even sew on my cards! The felt is now the new thing I see… Was adorable at Christmas and is adorable here at Easter. Might have to join in and take the plunge… Love your projects!

Aaaaacccchhhhh!!!! I LOVE vellum and you nailed it. I miss “seeing” you, too, and have the last few days of the coloring challenge to catch up on. Silly me, I thought I could get some coloring done while sitting with my mother all week long in the hospital, but it wasn’t to be. I’m taking a day off and will get to those and see what else is happening on the hop.

Hi Kathy!! What a great way to make treat bags! I love the vellum. So cute!! Love your felt bunny and egg too. Lovely glass basket…I live just a hop skip and a jump from the Fenton glass shop in S.W. Missouri. I rarely go in there because I could spend hours looking at glass! I love the different patterns and colors, it’s much like looking at stamps and dies. LOL eep!

As always, I LOVE these projects, Kathy!!! I’ve always found sewing so relaxing, too (and of course coloring), and these new dies that cut out all of the holes for you make it even better! Thank you so much for another great video and projects! XO